Summary of Iqa-adapter: Exploring Knowledge Transfer From Image Quality Assessment to Diffusion-based Generative Models, by Khaled Abud et al.
IQA-Adapter: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from Image Quality Assessment to Diffusion-based Generative Models
by Khaled Abud, Sergey Lavrushkin, Alexey Kirillov, Dmitriy Vatolin
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed methods integrate image quality assessment (IQA) models into diffusion-based generators, enabling quality-aware image generation. The authors experiment with gradient-based guidance and introduce IQA-Adapter, a novel framework that conditions generation on target quality levels by learning the implicit relationship between images and quality scores. IQA-Adapter can shift the distribution of generated images towards a higher-quality subdomain or generate progressively more distorted images when provided with a lower-quality signal. The method achieves up to a 10% improvement across multiple objective metrics, as confirmed by a user preference study, while preserving generative diversity and content. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers find new ways to make computer-generated images look better. They use something called “image quality assessment” models to help their generators create higher-quality pictures. The team tries out different methods and comes up with a new approach that works really well. When they tell the generator to make high-quality images, it does! And when they want low-quality images, it can do that too. This method is important because it helps us create more realistic images that people will like. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Image generation
